Appearing a rectangle around a feather or blurred object after print

Hello everyone;
I faced to a problem in my print production,
I have a vector design which shoud be printed as a eps file. A feather and blur filter is included in the file. File must be saved as EPS file to send in print machine, but, when I printed the design, there appeared a gray square on the each filtered objects.
Then i test other ways, like rastrising, masking, mesh, .. but resault was the same in a little bit deferences.
I don't know how to solve this problem, thank you

Transparency gets flattened automatically when saving an EPS. But you need to adjust the settings and you might need to also adjust printing settings.
http://indesignsecrets.com/eliminating-ydb-yucky-discolored-box-syndrome.php

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